Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patents now are obtainable on diesels or their modifications, for plane-power or other drive.* Several manufacturers have been experimenting with diesel modifications for aircraft. Some of their representatives were at Langley Field last week, attending the fourth annual Engineering Research Conference conducted by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (initiated by President Wilson). It was to astonish their peers that Packard Engineers Woolson and Lees had flown the 650 wind-jostled miles from Detroit. It was to frustrate competitive inquisitiveness that they hooded their motor...
Hereby has Harvard, with a reputation for doing consistently right by its faculty, set a precedent that the rest of the universities on the Carnegie list must follow. Comparatively low salaries, painfully slow promotion, and constant demands for more and more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into bad enough repute without adding the prospects of a penniless old age. Some financial provision must be made for the retirement of devoted servants who have divided their activity between expounding the learned book and worrying over the account book...
...Rawlings and E. M. Daland will be instructors while the following men will hold research fellowships: H. A. Abramson, R. T. Beebe, D. R. Drury, Jacob Lerman '23, G. E. Lewis, A. A. Marlow, O. O. Meyer, and W. T. Salter...
...student body was fortunate in being addressed during the year by Professor L. Sherman Davis, of the University of Indiana, who presented some very interesting research material on nutrition...
Limitation of funds is handicapping the research work of the school, but some interesting problems are being worked out by undergraduates. Professor Percy R. Howe is continuing his work in nutrition and has developed a purified diet for animals which may be of considerable importance later on. Dr. Howe has been given an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Bates College for his researches in this field